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A UTTLE JOURNEY 

Vividly Narrated by a Traveling Man 
to the Folks at Home, and presented 
to you with the compliments of the 
American Issue Publishing Company 



WESTERVILLE, OHIO 
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A Little Journey 

^ \\ O children, Minnie, fifteen, and Dan, twelve years of age, were on the porch waiting for 
the mail man. He handed a paper and a large envelope to the boy. 

>> “A big letter from father!” exclaimed Dan. 

'A es, it’s from papa, all right!” said Minnie, and the two hurried in to find the other 
two members of the family—mamma and grandma. 

The return at the corner of the envelope said: ‘‘D. P. Clark, Special Agent of the 
Consolidated Grocery Company, 120 Broadway, New York.” The address was Mrs. Lucinda 
B. Clark, Overlook Street, Yonkers, New York, and it was postmarked Columbus, Ohio. 
They were soon seated under the vines on the side porch. 

"It’s another picture-letter,” said Mrs. Clark, as she opened it, and the children drew 
their chairs closer. 

Mr. Clark in his long trips had a pleasant habit of selecting from the many available 
pictures, such as would best illustrate his home-letters. His missives were eagerly welcomed by all the 
members of the family. 

“Daddy’s a brick to send us pictures!” 

“Dan!” chided his sister. —— 

“He’s a fine fellow, anyhow,” said Dan. 

“Columbus, August 15th, 1910,” began Mrs. Clark. “Dear ones in the Hilltop Home: I was so busy 
> at Cleveland that I had to rush my packing and take a run for my train, so I did not get time to write. As 

my work is lighter in Columbus, I’ll make it up here.” 



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PRINTING THE AMERICAN ISSUE. 


THE BIG PRESSES STRIKING SOLAR PLEXUS BLOWS AGAINST THE SALOON. 








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“He’s done it all right,” said Dan happily. 

“I came down on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus branch of the Pennsylvania Railway. We 
were nearing Columbus, about ten miles out, when “Westerville” was called. Afterward, as we were pulling 
out of the village, a man across the aisle said: 

“‘Conductor, what is that broad, brick building with sky-lights?’ 

“ ‘That,’ replied the conductor, ‘is the Publishing House of the Anti-Saloon League. That is the 

reason of our long stop just now at the station. They put on nearly a car-load of mail!’ 

“As it is near the track, I had a good view of the building. Solidly constructed of gray pressed 
brick, it covers a floor space of 93 by 112 feet and is 25 feet high to the top of the sky-lights. Evidently it’s 

built for business. In the middle of my letter you will find a picture of the building.” 

“What a lot of windows!” cried Dan. 

“Well, they need plenty of light,” said Minnie. 

Mrs. Clark continued to read : 

“You know, mother, your ‘line upon line’ for so many years has made a pretty strong temperance 
man of me. I kept thinking as we pulled toward Columbus, of Doctor Stevenson, our pastor, and his in¬ 
terest in the Anti-Saloon League, and how we all love the American Issue, that brave fighting sheet, 
published right here at the town I had just passed. I didn’t suppose I could see anything more of Wester¬ 
ville, but found that a suburban trolley runs right out to it every hour, past the Chittenden Hotel, where 1 
am stopping. Everything went well.with my work and I had three or four hours to spare, so I went out 
this afternoon to visit this headquarters of the greatest fighting organization for sobriety the world has 
ever seen—The Anti-Saloon League. 

“The conductor dropped me off on State Street, right in front of the house in which are found the 
temporary offices of the League. This building is one of the residences on the lots bought for the League’s 


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THE WONDERFUL TYPESETTING MACHINES. 


THESE TWO MEN ARE EQUAL TO SIX MEN SETTING TYPE BY HAND. 








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National Headquarters. Leaving the office building on the left, I went up the walk to the Publishing 
Building. I found the office at the opposite corner. The office is fully equipped for business. A number of 
busy clerks were at work and the big safe and office desks and furniture bespoke systematic business 
methods. There is a complete cost system with daily reports of every employee and every machine and 
upon every job. This makes it possible to tell at any time just how much profit or loss there is on any job 
of printing and on the entire business from day to day, as well as on every piece of machinery in the plant, 
and in every department of work. Monthly reports are made to the management, and there is a quarterly 
audit by public accountants. Here I was given not only a ‘ticket,’ but a courteous guide, who gave us full 
information and made my visit and that of other visitors who went with me, an hour of great pleasure and 
profit.” 


The Wonderful Mergenthalers 

“‘We will first look at the Linotypes,’ said our guide. I think, Dan-boy, you have never yet seen a 
typesetter. It is one of the most skillful and fascinating machines in the world. It seems to be thinking; 
you imagine it soon will speak to you—its work is so complex and yet so well done. Look! As the operator 
plays upon the key-board, the type-moulds rapidly assemble, dropping down from their boxes above into 
place in line, like well drilled zouaves. Then the line of moulds is carried to the left, where it fits into two 
'jaws’ so there can be no escape for any of the hot metal as it is forced into the moulds. Then, the line is 
carried around, hardening as it goes, and is deftly trimmed, passed on and dropped into its place with the 
other metal moulds in the galley. Thence it goes to the proof press. Meanwhile the type-moulds march back 
like soldiers and distribute themselves quickly into their proper places to be used again. In a little time a 
page is composed and an anti-saloon thunderbolt is forged and ready to be hurled! Here I found two of these 


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wonderful typesetters working like Gatling guns upon the enemy. These Number 5 Mergenthalers are the 
very latest model. I hey are called ‘Quick Change machines,’ because very rapidly they may be changed 
from one size of type to another and from one length of line to another. The two machines do the work of 
six or seven expert hand compositors. When the lines are cast they are easier to handle than the old-fash¬ 
ioned type, no pi to make a mess of trouble such as I often saw, Dan, when I was a boy in the country 
printing office. 1 he type-face is newly minted every time and there is no laborious distribution of type in 
the cases—they simply drop the metal lines back again into the pot and fuse them over. You cannot tell 
much about these magic typesetters from the picture. You must see these geniuses themselves at work!” 

“Daniel waxes quite eloquent over the type machines!” said grandma. 

“Yes,” replied Mrs. Clark, “his year in the Gazette office when he was a boy makes him interested.” 

“I wonder if they have a Merger——” 

“Mer-gen-tha-ler,” said Dan’s sister. 

“Yes; I wonder if there is one in the Yonkers’ Statesman office. I am going to see next time I go 
by it,” said Dan. 


The Job Department 

“I could scarcely leave those typesetters. I was thinking of the time when I picked type out of the 
case and put them in the ‘stick’ by hand, and how it is all changed for the better. But the guide moved us 
along into the part of the big shop where the cases of job type are located. Here we were shown a great 
quantity of the most up-to-date styles. All modern faces of type, all modern ‘furniture,’ plenty of every¬ 
thing to turn out whatever is needed in job work for local, county and state campaigns, and all varieties to 























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prepare a card, a poster, or a book. Look at the beautiful cabinets in which the job type are classified. 
There are four thousand dollars’ worth of job type. It’s a great job office. I never saw so much type, even 
in the great publication offices in the large cities.” 


The Job Presses 

“Our guide next called our attention to the ‘Jobbers,’ all three of which were quickly opening and 
closing, impressing the white board or paper sheet with facts and figures and handing it back for its journey 
of enlightenment. 

“ ‘These,’ said our young guide, ‘are new Chandler and Price Job Presses, and they can turn out ten 
hundred impressions an hour.’ 

“‘Are they kept busy most of the time?’ asked one of the business men in our party. 

“ ‘Yes,’ said our guide, ‘when there is no special order on a press, we keep it busy preparing general 
stock for use in the campaigns of the future!’ One of the job presses was printing the covers for the Anti- 
Saloon League Year Book for next year. I am sending you a copy of the Year Book for the present year. 
It is the greatest annual compilation of facts relating to the liquor traffic and to the fight against it, 
published anywhere. Mr. Cherrington says the Year Book for the next year will be ready to send out on the 
first day of next January, and he expects to publish at least fifty thousand copies. 

“Thus the League’s Publishing House is forehanded in getting its batteries ready for the future 
fray. I was reminded, children, of the guns and ammunition I saw stored up in the Government arsenal 
buildings at Rock Island, waiting for the time when the defense of the flag might require them. ‘In peace 
prepare for war.’ ” 


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A CORNER OF THE STOCK ROOM 







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The Stock Room 

“ ‘As we are near the stock room we will look into it as we pass by,’ said the guide. ‘Here on these 
shelves, wrapped to keep it clean, is the prepared stock. And here is the paper for the big presses,’ pointing 
to the huge stacks of bundles. ‘At the present rate of printing, it takes more than a ton a day, or one and 
a half car-loads of paper a month. Within a year to come, it will probably take a freight train of forty or 
fifty cars to provide the paper stock for a year.’ 

“The Publishing House keeps on hand several tons of literature, books, pamphlets and tracts ready 
to ship to any locality where a no-license campaign is on, at a moment’s notice.” 


Feeding the Presses by Machinery 

“Just then a truck load of paper was starting out, and we followed it over to the largest press, where 
a Dexter feeder lifts and slides the paper, a sheet at a time, upon the press. This ingenious rubber-fingered 
machine saves the labor of a man in feeding the big press. 

“A man is adjusting about twelve hundred pounds of paper where the feeder can take hold of it and 
run it through. 

“These large, flat-bed Miehle presses can turn out two thousand American Issues each per hour. 
Again I looked back thirty-five years and caught an amusing glimpse of myself, a smooth - faced boy of 
twenty, pulling the lever of the old, big, Franklin hand-power press, sweating and grunting in the stuffy 
room of the ‘Weekly Gazette,’ all day and late into the night to ‘get off’ the edition of 2,150 copies. It looks 
funny now, but it was serious business then! These beautiful machines have advanced the art of printing 


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THE LARGEST REFORM PR 

THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PUBLISHING PLANT 






















ING OFFICE IN THE WORLD 

WESTERVILLE. A SUBURB OF COLUMBUS. OHIO 





































THIS FOLDS AN "AMERICAN ISSUE" ALMOST AS “QUICK AS WINK 










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just as the farmer’s twine-binder has put away the old back-straining grain-cradle of our grandsires! As you 
see by the picture, these are fine, large specimens of the modern printing presses.” * 

As they looked at the picture, Minnie said: “Every time that arm comes over with the two copies 
of the ‘Issue’ finished and cut, it would seem as if the big press was smiting a saloon somewhere a stunning 
blow!” 

“That’s so,” said Dan, “and that’s one reason why so many have been knocked out of business lately!” 

Next the BigHDexter Folder 

“After we had our ‘Gazettes’ pulled ofif the hand-press, we had another heavy ‘chore’ to get them 
folded. It was tedious work by hand! It is very different, however, with the great Dexter folder which 
does the business in the American Issue plant. This wonderful folder makes life ‘flow like a song’ for the 
printer. Look at that pile five feet high of American Issues on the truck. A Dexter feeder with its rubber 
fingers is handing them over to the Dexter Folder. The inventor was foreordained to be named Dexter, 
because of the wondrous dexterity of his inventive genius! His folder takes the large sheet, hustles it 
along, pushes it down in the middle; another hand swipes it a little way to be again pushed down into the 
nip of another waiting grasp. Then it is doubled a third time. And now, quicker than tongue can tell, a 
cover is over the sixteen or thirty-two pages, two wire staples are stitched and clinched, and presto! the 
herald of truth, folded and bound, has caught up at the terminal with its agile neighbor which arrived only 
a second before. Next to the Mergenthaler machines this graceful Dexter folder was the most interesting 
to me of all the Anti-Saloon machinery.” 

* Opposite page seven. 


NINETEEN 









TRIMMING THE PAPERS. 


































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And Then The Trimmers 

“The guide courteously led us along to one of the Siebold trimmers. This fierce knife-engine looks as 
if the old French guillotine had been modernized for the use of a more civilized age. Today it trims anti¬ 
saloon papers, and so does execution in lopping off the political heads of unworthy grafters and heelers, and 
in dropping them into the basket of ignoble ‘has-beens!’ For neatness and convenience the Issue is 
trimmed top and side, and the machine cuts two sides of a hundred American Issues at once, slick and clean 
as it comes down with a pressure of ‘five-horse power’ upon the knives. 

The Power—It Makes the Wheels Go ’Round 

“Speaking of power, I had been wondering where it came from. At this Anti-Saloon plant it is a 
very quiet but very tremendous force. It is like the propelling force which is back of the Anti - Saloon 
movement. To the liquor dealers and short-sighted machine politicians, it is a mystery unsolved how the 
Anti-Saloon League has wrought such destructive and permanent results. As we have talked of it together 
several times at home, the plain solution of it is the Almighty Father is back of the movement and it must 
have force and victory! 

“Here, over the leaf, is a picture of the power room of the publishing plant. The engine that you see 
is a twenty-five horse-power gas engine. Just beyond is an electric generator of 17L2 kilowatt capacity, gen¬ 
erating a current of 220 volts. This electric power thus created is carried by wires under the floor, to each 
press and machine, where a motor is installed, to set the wheels in motion. All hand and foot power is dis¬ 
pensed with. The old-fashioned overhead shafts and pulleys and belts are left out. ‘Old things are passed 
away.’ Behold, everything is new and better! 


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THE GAS ENGINE GENERATING ELECTRIC POWER. 





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“Another engine is also at work here—a seven horse-power with a 5 kilowatt generator. In the in¬ 
terest of economy these engines can be run separately or together according as much or little power is 
required. And more power easily can be installed as it is needed in the future.” 

“That’s a fine way to make the wheels go round,” exclaimed Dan. 

“Ben Franklin was a great printer,” said Mrs. Clark, “and he did a good deal to make electricity 
useful, but he never harnessed printing and electricity into the same machine.” 

“They certainly have in every way a very modern and convenient office for this important social 
service,” exclaimed grandma. 


A General View of the Workshop 


“As we came out of the engine room we had a good general view of the whole assemblage of useful 
machinery, and I selected the picture you see on the next page to bring away with me. 

“Our guide called attention to the individual steel lockers provided for each workman and to the 
Ruud Heater which furnishes the hot water for the wash basins. 

“ ‘Of what is the floor composed?’ I asked the guide. 

“ ‘It is concrete everywhere,’ he replied, ‘and covered with an extra heavy cork linoleum—a durable 
and comfortable floor. Visitors,’ he said, pointing to skylights and windows, ‘always notice the fine illum¬ 
ination of the building. In the day time there are floods of light, and at night the electricity turns night 
into day!’ ” 

“ ‘Let there be light!’ ” said grandma, quietly. 


TWENTY- THREE 




A GENERAL VIEW OF THE PRESS ROOM. 


RUNNING BULLETS FOR THE TEMPERANCE WARFARE. 






















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Preparing for Uncle Sam 

“We now found ourselves in the mailing department. First we were shown the stencil room. Here 
the lists of subscribers are received and a stencil is perforated for every subscriber. This stencil is used for 
each mailing as long as the subscription runs. This Belknap stencil cutter operates like a typewriter. The 
stencils are filed in order by States all ready to address the wrappers for the subscribers to each edition of the 
American Issue. 

“The addressing machine is a great improvement over all other methods of sending out papers. 
The stencils are carried in a ‘galley’ to the machine. A large roll furnishes the wrapping paper and as the 
paper unreels the stencils are rapidly fed in one after another and each wrapper with the stenciled address 
plainly printed upon it is cut off. These wrappers are surely prepared ‘in a hurry,’ about 125 a minute, or 
about 75,000 a day. It is a lively piece of work!” 

Wrapping the Papers ] 

“The mailing room is a bustling place. Here in the picture you see the girls at work wrapping and 
pasting papers—each one in a separate wrapper. Upon the average the girls wrap about 5,000 each per day. 
The papers for each postoffice are wrapped together and labeled, and into the mail sack they go. The 
wagon loads of sacks are sent to the postoffice to be weighed, and then they go to the station and into the 
mail cars to be carried to every state in the union.” 


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CUTTING AND ADDRESSING WRAPPERS SEVEN THOUSAND AN HOUR 
















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The Men Behind 

“We have often talked at home of the Anti-Saloon League leaders. I hoped 1 should see some of 
them at the National Headquarters. I found that General Superintendent P. A. Baker, who conceived the 
plan for this great Publishing house, and his Associate Superintendent, Howard H. Russell, the founder of 
the Anti-Saloon League, were both away. Doctor Russell, at present, is helping to raise funds to 
pay for the publishing plant. At this time about half of the $70,000 already invested has been raised. 
The people are responding generously to the appeals for help. It is easy to see the paramount importance 
of strongly fortifying the Anti-Saloon League for its work of enlightenment and for the fierce campaigns 
of the future. 

“I was very much pleased to meet the man who has this whole enterprise under his direct oversight. 
Mr. Ernest H. Cherrington. He is general manager of the publishing house and editor-in-chief of the 
League’s publications. I hope you will all see him some day. At first he impresses you as rather a young 
fellow to have such grave and important matters in his charge. As you talk with him, however, you dis¬ 
cover that he is captain of the whole situation. 

“I told Mr. Cherrington I saw some book matter on one of the big presses. He said it was the book 
entitled ‘Grant’s Strategy at Chattanooga,’ containing some of the best addresses, lectures and sermons of 
the late Doctor J. C. Jackson, who was the first editor of the American Issue. 

“Mr. Cherrington added: ‘We have just issued from the press Eli Ritter’s great book, “Moral Law 
and Civil Law—Parts of the Same Thing,” while several others, such as “The Federal Government and the 
1 iquor Traffic,” by Hon. W. E. Johnson, and “The Gothenburg System,” by Ernest Gordon, are now in 
press. Other books soon will follow until we have an adequate quantity of solid literature to meet the de¬ 
mands.’ ” 

“Passing through the bindery we found that department turning out by the tens of thousands, 


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GETTING READY FOR THE MAIL 











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‘Bench vs. Bar,’ by L. D. Lilly, Esq., Governor Stubbs’ ‘Prohibition in Kansas,’ George R. Stuart’s ‘Stump 
Digger,’ and many other anti-liquor pamphlets which are already having a wide circulation. 

“Mr. Cherrington also said: ‘Our circulation of The American Issue is increasing very rapidly. 
We printed about a third of a million copies last month, and it is now certain that within a comparatively 
short time editions amounting to a million copies a month will be called for. This means,’ said the manager, 
‘that we must buy a new rotary press, capable of printing, folding and stitching 75,000 or 100,000 copies 
daily. We are now making plans to provide such a press. We are sure the friends of the cause will be 
glad to furnish the necessary funds for this necessary addition to our plant, which will soon carry a total in¬ 
vestment of $100,000.’ Mr. Cherrington gave me a picture of such a press as he would like to purchase. Here 
it is on the next page. 

“I procured copies of the numerous recent publications of the League and am sending you the same 
under separate cover. I know you will look them over with great interest. 

“I had just enough time left to get a glimpse of Westerville. It seems to be just the place 
for the publishing plant. It is a model, modern village, having good advantages, such as natural gas, elec¬ 
tricity and paved streets. It is a college community, quite unanimously in sympathy with the plans and 
methods of the Anti-Saloon League. 

“As I returned to Columbus, I was filled with a great gratitude that the temperance reform is taking 
on such mighty forces for fighting the good fight. With the need there is, especially in our great cities, for 
special education, how glad we all should be that at last this cause is found in a big brick and mortar build¬ 
ing with powerful machinery of its own to send forth the facts to hammer the truth into the hearts and 
minds of the people and to win the great victories of the future against the liquor traffic. 

“Some day I hope you all can come this far west and see the great work now done and to be done at 
Westerville when the enlarged plans of the future have been realized. 


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Wanted! A Press Like This at Westerville. 



SUCH A MAMMOTH PRESS IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY TO KEEP UP WITH THE GROWING PUBLICATIONS 

OF THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. 

































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“I returned to the hotel in time for supper, a little tired, but very much refreshed in my heart by 
my Little Journey. Hoping to see you by the last of next month. I remain, 

“Affectionately yours, 

“DANIEL P. CLARK.” 

“Sometimes,” said Mrs. Clark thoughtfully, “when I see the scores of saloons here in Yonkers and 
think of the awful conditions in New York City, it seems like a hopeless struggle.” 

“Yes,” said the senior Mrs. Clark, “and you remember the Anti-Saloon League speaker last month at 
our church, told us there are in New York State, 243 breweries, 35 distilleries and 30,000 sa¬ 
loons. But we know in some states they are making rapid progress, and even in New York conditions have 
been improving, especially in the up-state sections.” 

“Well,” said Minnie, “I think this publishing house is going to be a great help in winning the fight.” 

And Dan said, “You know the piece I spoke in school last winter about the good time coming. It 
ended this way: 


“Aid the dawning tongue and pen. 

Aid it hopes of honest men; 

Aid it paper, aid it type 
For the hour is surely ripe! 

“Those are my sentiments!” 

And they were the sentiments of all in the home of The Traveling Man! 


THIRTY- ONE 



Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of the nation 
to enact and enforce its lams. 


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